About Samantha
Samantha Love is a counsellor who helps people who are anxious or struggling with relationships and trauma. She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, grief, sleep problems, low self-esteem and mood difficulties. Samantha writes plainly and aims to make sessions feel calm and practical for worried people seeking change.
She draws on 15 years of experience in education and prison settings, including work with special educational needs and autistic spectrum needs.
Background and approach
This background informs how she explains things and adapts sessions to the person in front of her. Samantha holds a degree in Psychology and a diploma in therapeutic counselling, and she is registered with NCPS. Samantha uses an integrative approach, blending methods so each session fits the person’s needs.
She commonly uses cognitive behavioural ideas to look at unhelpful thoughts and small experiments to try new ways of coping. She also brings in mindfulness to calm the body and client-centred listening to help people feel heard. Creative methods are part of her toolkit when talking feels hard; drawing, writing or other activities may be suggested to make progress feel more manageable.
Her practice includes work with trauma, childhood abuse, panic, and relationship difficulties, as well as supporting parents and people moving through life changes. She offers online and telephone counselling skills she has used for many years and has tutored counselling students. Samantha aims to respond to messages within 24 hours Monday to Friday and arranges sessions to suit people’s schedules.
How therapeutic approaches work in online counselling
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress and coping with big life changes because it focuses on what matters most rather than fighting every difficult thought.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at thinking patterns and behaviour. It uses practical steps such as testing unhelpful beliefs and trying small behavioural experiments to reduce panic, social anxiety and low mood.
Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships affect current patterns. It can help people understand intimacy issues, relationship difficulties and the effects of past trauma by exploring connection and emotional responses.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Samantha will work collaboratively to choose or blend methods that fit a person’s goals, needs and preferences. That might mean starting with short CBT tasks, adding mindfulness practices, or using creative activities to open up difficult subjects.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video works well for face-to-face conversation, phone can be a good low-bandwidth option, and text or chat suits brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around work, family and travel while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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